Uh, no, it doesn't quite work like that. What we're afraid of is that they will start lobbying even harder to get the law changed. Disclosure regulations should make it harder for the lobbyists to throw money at the representatives, but, who knows
Thanks! Of course I should have checked brreg:-)
And then there was the PI-ism gang, worshipping thw number pi. After all, it is not only irrational, like most religions I know of, but actually transcendent...
Cite? I've checked everywhere I can reach online, and they are not registered as such. That is strange, given that every registered "tros- og livssynssamfunn" (faith and life philosophy community) gets a government grant per member equal to what the State church (yes, we still have one) gets. Somehow I don't see the CoS walking away from a source of non-earned income...
If you see a child in trouble, absolutely never go near them. The last one is particularly important since children are the greatest risk to your freedom in the current political climate and should never be approached under any circumstances.
I've seen people act as if they really believed that. A small boy crying desperately, any parent would realize that he was distressed. Plenty of adults within hearing, nobody seemed to care. I talked to him, found out he was lost in his new neighborhood and helped him find his way. And yes, I did think about the possibility that I would be taken for a child molester, but - suppose he didn't find his way and was picked up by someone not out to help him?
Take a look at this map. See that narrow peninsula? That's in the western hemisphere, pointing straight at South America. East Antarctica is in the other directon. North/south, well, that's another question:-)
nebolshoi sneg - a little snow. You live there?
More details at yr.no, forecasting indeed "a little snow". Or no snow at all during the coldest days.
Here in Southern Norway it's been a very cold winter, unusual wind patterns bringing cold, dry air from Russia. Perversely, up north it's been an unusually mild winter so far and it only started snowing for real a week or so ago.
Another 5C and most of Russia and Canada become farmland instead of permafrost. I would say that this would make much of southern California uninhabitable,...
Clean burning wood heating is a mature technology. Over on the east coast of the Atlantic, at 60 deg North latitude, local governments subsidise by a small amount the changeover from old-fashioned stoves to new, clean burning ones. The "clean" comes from either an afterburning chamber or a catalyst chamber. The result is more heat and less polluting gases. I still have my old fireplace, but installed an air-to-air heat pump which works fine. If and when I replace the wood heating system it will be by a small automatic pellets burner, also using clean burning technology. Oh, and logging in this country takes out less biomass from the forests than the annual regrowth.
Now, I will agree that taking a loud talker's cell phone and jamming it up their rectum is probably an over-reaction, but it really depends on the situation.
I was tempted, but just talked to her in a not-really-friendly tone: Some kind of social worker on the subway, obviously talking to a client about the client's ailing relationship to her husband. I really should have grabbed the phone and turned it off, but at least the offender realized the error of her ways and hung up. All right - it could have been an emergency situation, but then you get off at the first stop and continue the conversation somewhere more private, there are only about 2 minutes between stops on that line...
So if certain Microsoft products are or were insecure and/or unstable, it wasn't incompetence, but malice? You think Microsoft was happy every time a user got the dreaded Blue Screen Of Death?
Of course. "Oh, that's fixed in the next version, please upgrade. That'll be $nn, thank you. " Ka-ching!
You are right, we don't really care.
How many people were killed in the US in car accidents last year?
How many were murdered? Split the statistics by method - blunt/sharp instrument, poison, handgun etc.
How many children died world wide from malnutrition or easily curable/preventable disease?
(Hint: statistically, the number of children dying from these causes daily is very close to the number of people killed in one day in the WTC.)
I am not a statistician, obviously, but it seems to me that the risk of death in a ground traffic accident is far higher than the risk of death from a terrorist action.
If your agency can spend the time, testing/bug reporting and writing/improving/proofreading documentation is always welcome. If there are any people in your organization who are fluent in other languages, have them participate in the translations.
There is precisely one member of the committee (Ågot Valle) that could be described as a leftist (party SV).
There are two from Labour, one conservative and one ultra-conservative (slightly to the right of the republicans).
On the other hand, since the ultra-conservatives in the Progress Party have no desire to dismantle our national health care system, you might call them leftists after all...
I was actually looking for another Discworld quote when this one popped up. I think it's appropriate:
One reason for the bustle was that over large parts of the continent other people preferred to make money without working at all, and since the Disc had yet to develop a music recording industry they were forced to fall back on older, more traditional forms of banditry.
Check your spam filter - carefully.
I was stupid enough to open a picture attached to a spam, deleted it immediately, and this is so long ago that the hard disk in question has been taken out and destroyed...
Usually I feel safer opening attachments on my Linux machine than any Windows box, but...really...
Slashdot Mirror
Uh, no, it doesn't quite work like that. What we're afraid of is that they will start lobbying even harder to get the law changed. Disclosure regulations should make it harder for the lobbyists to throw money at the representatives, but, who knows
Thanks! Of course I should have checked brreg :-)
And then there was the PI-ism gang, worshipping thw number pi. After all, it is not only irrational, like most religions I know of, but actually transcendent ...
Cite? I've checked everywhere I can reach online, and they are not registered as such. That is strange, given that every registered "tros- og livssynssamfunn" (faith and life philosophy community) gets a government grant per member equal to what the State church (yes, we still have one) gets. Somehow I don't see the CoS walking away from a source of non-earned income ...
It is always September.
If you see a child in trouble, absolutely never go near them. The last one is particularly important since children are the greatest risk to your freedom in the current political climate and should never be approached under any circumstances.
I've seen people act as if they really believed that. A small boy crying desperately, any parent would realize that he was distressed. Plenty of adults within hearing, nobody seemed to care. I talked to him, found out he was lost in his new neighborhood and helped him find his way. And yes, I did think about the possibility that I would be taken for a child molester, but - suppose he didn't find his way and was picked up by someone not out to help him?
Take a look at this map. See that narrow peninsula? That's in the western hemisphere, pointing straight at South America. East Antarctica is in the other directon. North/south, well, that's another question :-)
Ah - the same source that sent out that bogus petition they claim was signed by 30,000 scientists. No, thanks.
That's one of the most insightful posts on this "thread" ...
And your first link contains a diagram showing that the glacier has been mostly retreating since 1930, currently advancing but far from the 1930 size.
nebolshoi sneg - a little snow. You live there? More details at yr.no, forecasting indeed "a little snow". Or no snow at all during the coldest days. Here in Southern Norway it's been a very cold winter, unusual wind patterns bringing cold, dry air from Russia. Perversely, up north it's been an unusually mild winter so far and it only started snowing for real a week or so ago.
Another 5C and most of Russia and Canada become farmland instead of permafrost. I would say that this would make much of southern California uninhabitable, ...
Unfortunately the release of 400 gigatonnes of CH3 might cause a giant dieback. It's happened before.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Methane+burp
Clean burning wood heating is a mature technology. Over on the east coast of the Atlantic, at 60 deg North latitude, local governments subsidise by a small amount the changeover from old-fashioned stoves to new, clean burning ones. The "clean" comes from either an afterburning chamber or a catalyst chamber. The result is more heat and less polluting gases. I still have my old fireplace, but installed an air-to-air heat pump which works fine. If and when I replace the wood heating system it will be by a small automatic pellets burner, also using clean burning technology. Oh, and logging in this country takes out less biomass from the forests than the annual regrowth.
Now, I will agree that taking a loud talker's cell phone and jamming it up their rectum is probably an over-reaction, but it really depends on the situation.
I was tempted, but just talked to her in a not-really-friendly tone: Some kind of social worker on the subway, obviously talking to a client about the client's ailing relationship to her husband. I really should have grabbed the phone and turned it off, but at least the offender realized the error of her ways and hung up. All right - it could have been an emergency situation, but then you get off at the first stop and continue the conversation somewhere more private, there are only about 2 minutes between stops on that line ...
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070313
So if certain Microsoft products are or were insecure and/or unstable, it wasn't incompetence, but malice? You think Microsoft was happy every time a user got the dreaded Blue Screen Of Death?
Of course. "Oh, that's fixed in the next version, please upgrade. That'll be $nn, thank you. " Ka-ching!
How is a fine comparable to users stealing?
How many people were killed in the US in car accidents last year?
How many were murdered? Split the statistics by method - blunt/sharp instrument, poison, handgun etc.
How many children died world wide from malnutrition or easily curable/preventable disease?
(Hint: statistically, the number of children dying from these causes daily is very close to the number of people killed in one day in the WTC.)
I am not a statistician, obviously, but it seems to me that the risk of death in a ground traffic accident is far higher than the risk of death from a terrorist action.
If your agency can spend the time, testing/bug reporting and writing/improving/proofreading documentation is always welcome. If there are any people in your organization who are fluent in other languages, have them participate in the translations.
You both sue each other and fight it out.
And the winners are - the lawyers!!
There is precisely one member of the committee (Ågot Valle) that could be described as a leftist (party SV). There are two from Labour, one conservative and one ultra-conservative (slightly to the right of the republicans). On the other hand, since the ultra-conservatives in the Progress Party have no desire to dismantle our national health care system, you might call them leftists after all ...
Suuuure. And the world will come to an end in 2012 anyway, so why worry?
Let's hope the goslings will make beautiful music ...
Check your spam filter - carefully. I was stupid enough to open a picture attached to a spam, deleted it immediately, and this is so long ago that the hard disk in question has been taken out and destroyed ...
Usually I feel safer opening attachments on my Linux machine than any Windows box, but ...really ...
And around there was this: http://www.lermanet.com/cos/enggulag.html